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depot eliminated chemical hazards, reduced waste,
and improved working condition through over 60
rapid improvement events.
For example, employees previously used aircraft
paint thinner to clean paint guns manually. By purchasing
automated paint gun cleaning systems, the
depot was able minimize employee exposure to unsafe
chemicals. The installation also purchased a robotic
spray process, which reduced the amount of hazardous
material that employees came in contact with and the
amount of harmful emissions produced from paints
and paint thinners. Less product used overall equals
less pollution.
Letterkenny has made other changes to improve its
environmental performance. Instead of disposing of
spent blast media 55-gallon drums, the depot is using
super sacks and large roll-off containers. This has produced
a 77-percent cost reduction in media hazardous
waste disposal and saves the depot $500,000 annually
in handling and disposal fees. An installation-wide
recycling program has reduced the use of hazardous
chemicals and diverted 58-percent of its solid waste
from entering local landfills. The depot has also
acquired dual-fuel vehicles that will run on unleaded
gasoline or E85 ethanol.
KNOW YOUR TERMS
Changes to Army doctrine in 2008 have brought
about some significant changes in Army terminology.
Logisticians should make sure they know what terms
are now in use and what terms are obsolete.
Army doctrine will no longer use the venerable
terms “combat service support” and “combat support,”
though those terms will continue to be used
in joint doctrine. The term “battlefield operating
systems” will be replaced by “warfighting functions.”
The warfighting functions will include “movement
and maneuver,” “intelligence,” “fires” (formerly “fire
support”), “sustainment,” “command and control,”
and “protection.” The terms “battlespace” and “deep,”
“close,” and “rear areas” are rescinded; “close combat”
will replace “close area.”
The term “support operations” is rescinded as
a type of operation. “Stability operations” is now
considered coequal with offensive and defensive
operations. The “protection” warfighting function
(meaning “the related tasks and systems that preserve
the force so the commander can apply maximum
combat power”) replaces the term “force protection.”
Force protection will remain in use under its joint
definition in other services, but the Army will no
longer use the term.
Army doctrine will follow joint definitions and
common English usage for the terms “agility,” “asymmetry,”
“operational fires,” and “versatility.” “Lines
of effort” (defined as “lines that links multiple tasks
and missions using the logic of purpose—cause and
effect—to focus efforts toward establishing operational
and strategic conditions”) replaces the Army’s former
term, “logical lines of operations.” “Individual
initiative” will replace “subordinates’ initiative.”
For a complete introduction to new, modified,
and rescinded Army terms, see Appendix D of Field
Manual 3–0, Operations.
A supply chain partnership involving all of the
services delivered more than 5,200 mine resistant
ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles to the U.S.
Central Command area of operations by April.
Built to deflect blasts, the MRAPs will protect
U.S. service members from the effects of
improvised explosive devices. The U.S.
Transportation Command’s end-to-end
distribution team is monitoring the process
from production to arrival in theater to make
sure everything runs smoothly. Shown here,
a 447th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness
Squadron fuels management flight technician
at Sather Air Base, Iraq, notifies a driver that
his MRAP vehicle is fueled up and ready to go.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Jennifer Lindsey, USAF)
JULY–AUGUST 2008